CNN’s Daniel Dale: Tim Walz’s Claim that the Trump Presidency Lost More Manufacturing Jobs than Any Other Presidency Is ‘Not True’

BOLDUAN: “Let‘s talk about building — let‘s talk about manufacturing. Building back up manufacturing in the United States is a focus of both campaigns. I want to play for you what vice presidential candidate Tim Walz said about this yesterday.”

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WALZ: “We want to make sure that you‘re able to bring manufacturing, like Kamala Harris has said. We know Donald Trump lost more manufacturing jobs than any president American history. That‘s simply factual.”
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BOLDUAN: “What are the facts here?”
Dale: “Well, if you‘re going to say something is simply factual, it should be factual. This is not. It’s not true that the Trump presidency lost more manufacturing jobs than any other presidency. Under George W. Bush, there were about 4.5 million manufacturing jobs lost. Under Trump it was about 178,000. But there are also more manufacturing jobs lost than under Trump: under Eisenhower, under Ford, under Reagan. So Trump does not have the record. I think it‘s also worth pointing out for context that these Trump job losses in manufacturing overwhelmingly occurred because of the Covid, pandemic. Pre-pandemic, under Trump, there was a gain of about 414,000 manufacturing jobs. Again, he ended a negative 178,000, but that was largely because we had a pandemic-related crash.”
BOLDUAN: “Daniel Dale, great to see you as always.”